Abstract:
Based on scientific metrics (the number of published works, their citations, the Hfactor,
the Scopus database), it was conducted the analysis of the development of food
science research in Eastern Europe (EU, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria) and post-Soviet
countries (Russia, Ukraine, Moldova). There have been presented the main information
channels of the global information area in this research domain, as well as the most
important information channels of Eastern Europe. It is shown that if the first are
represented by the journals of the first quartile (in accordance with the SJR data), then the
latter are represented, in the best case, by the 2-nd quartile journals. Leading countries in
this area of research on the total number of publications and the H-factor have been
identified. It is analyzed the dynamics of the number of publications (per million
inhabitants) for EU countries surveyed and the post-Soviet countries. It is shown that in all
countries there is a positive dynamics, but the publication activity is significantly higher in
the EU countries (21 million people per year in Poland, ~ 8 in Bulgaria and Romania, ~ 2 in
Russia, Ukraine and Moldova, data of 2017).